Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health PGCert

Join us to study severe mental health problems and examine ways to build relationships with service users and their families and carers to identify needs and collaborate over care decisions.

You’ll prepare for a rewarding career in a new role that forms part of the transformation of mental health services. We’ll teach you all the skills you need as a mental health and wellbeing practitioner (MHWP) to support adults of all ages.

Learn alongside other adult service practitioners and therapists over 12 months. You’ll be part of a local mental health service, playing a core part of an existing team in the community.

During our PGCert Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health course, you’ll discover how to engage and assess adults with severe mental health problems so you can develop effective care plans. Then you’ll collaborate with service users and their carers and families to deliver low-intensity, psychologically-informed interventions and make sure they have appropriate support.

Our combination of online study, in-person clinical skills training and practice-based learning align with the work-based component of Health Education England’s mental health and wellbeing training programme.

Please note, this course is also available as an undergraduate University Advanced Certificate for which different entry criteria apply.

Your future career

As a graduate with a PGCert Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner: Specialist Adult Mental Health, you’ll leave us with the skills to work as a Band 5 professional with options for career progression.

The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) set out a commitment to new and integrated primary and community mental healthcare models. You’ll have experience of intensive practice-based sessions and working across agencies. This means you’ll meet the mental health and wellbeing practitioner requirements that emerged in response to the plan.

This new community-based position will promote access to:

• psychological therapies
• improved physical healthcare
• employment support
• personalised and trauma-informed care
• medicines management
• support for self-harm and coexisting substance use

You’ll be ready for a career that includes maintaining and developing new services for people who have the most complex needs and offers the chance to undertake proactive work to address racial disparities.